Hepatic artery reconstruction in pediatric living donor liver transplantation under 10 kg, without microscope use

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-51

  Enne, Marcelo ^a   Pacheco Moreira, Lucio ^a   Balbi, Elizabeth ^a   Cerqueira, Alexandre ^a   Alves, Jefferson ^a   Valladares, Marcia Angélica ^a   Santalucia, Giuseppe ^a   Martinho, Jose Manoel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GERAL DE BONSUCESSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hepatic artery; Living donor liver transplantation; Microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISEASE COURSE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; SUTURING METHOD;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BODY WEIGHT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 74349105576     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01219.x     Document Type: Article

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